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No Bull Blog has moved!

Posted on January 5, 2008 by John

The No Bull Business Blog has moved to a new service. You can now find it at: http://pbp.typepad.com/nobull
Sorry, but we needed to do this. So please visit!

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Most Difficult Conversations: Telling employees they smell!

Posted on January 2, 2008 by John

When it comes to difficult conversations with employees, which ones cause the most angst for managers?
Firings? Nope.
Explaining why someone didn’t get a raise? Guess again.
The most dreaded conversation:
Telling an employee that he or she smells!
And the easiest conversation?
Confronting an employee about having inappropriate photos on his or her computer.
In fact, managers don’t mind giving an employee [...]

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